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June 12th 2007

Because of some personal problems I can't tell when the last HQA Comics will be added. I've had a serious depression attack yesterday and I hurt both of my hands, so drawing is a bit difficult. A lot of things are going to change in the next few months, and money is one of the problems I'm facing. I don't know whether I'll be able to make music as much as I was able to do in the past. Actually that counts for all projects of mine. I just don't know what to do. But I guess there's a solution for everything...

June 05th 2007

June 03rd 2007

Muddasheep's Daydream Part 11

When was the last time you felt absolutely confident? It happened to me two weeks ago when I was standing on the train station in Wels on my way home (the same train station that inspired me to create Patience, by the way). I was just standing there, saw little grass spots between the tracks in front of me, a slight breeze stroke my skin, it was warm, it was quiet. I felt that this moment could last forever. I closed my eyes and tried to live the moment to full extend. I smiled a little. I felt that I wanted to go away. Anywhere. Away from the stressful world I am a part of. Just step into a train and let myself carry away. Visit all of Europe. Step into a plane, visit the world.

I plan to go to Japan one day. The only thing that's keeping me from doing that right now is money. It's either visiting Japan for one week, or buying two high class laptops. I want to visit Iceland, Ireland, Sweden, Scotland. I want to be there, standing on my two feet, listening to the surroundings, close my eyes and feel confident. I need more distraction of the fact that we're part of a stressful world. I hate stress, I see frustrated people everywhere. Embittered faces, sadness carved deep below their eyes. They probably haven't felt confidence in many years.

I can't wait to see how The Secret World turns out. An MMORPG set in our current real life world sounds rather promising.

June 02nd 2007

A friend of mine showed me a video of Bob Ross. I've only known about that man because there was a rumor of a Bob Ross Wii game. But now that I've seen that man's magic in action, I just don't know what to say. This man is so full of peace it's rather inspiring. And the comments he makes while painting are simply hilarious. Talk about happy little trees and clouds. You should give it a try. Here's Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of Reflections of Calm. It's also sad to know that Bob died of cancer in 1995 at the age of 53. But at least we can assume he had led a rather fulfilling life.

May 30th 2007

A few years ago I've purchased the GBA Movie Player. While it was kinda fun to watch a few movies, listen to MP3s, and look through images on my GBA SP, and yet the fun wore off pretty quickly.

When the Nintendo DS arrived some people quickly developed the first ways to hack into the system, things like FlashMe and PassMe appeared, but both required too much effort and had some risk that your DS would get broken or at least the warranty would dissolve.

And now Reboot and Janis sent me a link to the M3 DS Simply - and I finally can turn my DS into the kind of gadget it should have been from the beginning. Watch movies and images, listen to MP3s, run DS Roms (!), and homebrew stuff like ScummVM (!!) and DSOrganize (including an IRC client and a webbrowser), both of which you can get at H4ndy's Homebrew Site.